Traditions

Rob and I bought the tree at Luchsinger's farm in Tully....a tradition Ian and I started about 15 years ago. We spent about 5 minutes picking the tree (no pictures) and another 30 minutes hanging with the cows (lots of pictures). We have had an unusually warm and snowless winter as evidenced by the still green landscape. Rob and I lived with the plain tree for a few weeks until Ian came home from Cornell and we set aside an afternoon for the family tradition...decorating while watching Christmas Vacation. I still laugh pathetically seconds before every funny scene in that movie.

Santa came right on schedule and we enjoyed opening our gifts from each other and a breakfast of french toast and bacon on the Christmas Eve plates and drinking juice from our Santa mugs.